Best platforms for cross-browser automation?

General Discussions
1

We need a solution for cross-browser automation that is fast, reliable, and scalable. Which platforms have proven best in real-world scenarios?

2

We moved our cross-browser automation to LambdaTest a while back, and it’s been a huge improvement. Running tests across Chrome, Firefox, Safari, and Edge is really smooth, and the platform rarely has random session failures. The parallel execution feature means we can validate a full regression across browsers in the time it used to take to run only a few locally.”

import org.openqa.selenium.WebDriver;
import org.openqa.selenium.chrome.ChromeOptions;
import org.openqa.selenium.remote.RemoteWebDriver;
import java.net.URL;
import java.util.HashMap;

ChromeOptions browserOptions = new ChromeOptions();
browserOptions.setPlatformName("Windows 10");
browserOptions.setBrowserVersion("dev");

HashMap<String, Object> ltOptions = new HashMap<>();
ltOptions.put("username", "<your username>");
ltOptions.put("accessKey", "<your_accesskey>");
ltOptions.put("project", "Untitled");
ltOptions.put("selenium_version", "4.0.0");
ltOptions.put("w3c", true);

browserOptions.setCapability("LT:Options", ltOptions);

WebDriver driver = new RemoteWebDriver(
    new URL("https://hub.lambdatest.com/wd/hub"),
    browserOptions
);

driver.get("https://example.com");
3

What I like most about LambdaTest for cross-browser work is its reliability and toolchain support. We trigger browser automation straight from Jenkins or GitHub Actions, and everything runs consistently across versions without flaky runs. It also saves screenshots and logs automatically, so debugging across browsers is much quicker.

4

We had a big suite covering IE11 to the latest Chrome and Firefox. With LambdaTest, we just defined multiple capability sets and fired them off in parallel. The dashboard makes it easy to spot environment-specific issues, and the logs/videos make fault triage painless, especially when multiple browsers behave differently.”

// Example: Running multiple browser sessions (conceptual)
String[] browsers = {"Chrome", "Firefox", "Edge"};
for (String browser : browsers) {
    ChromeOptions browserOptions = new ChromeOptions();
    browserOptions.setPlatformName("Windows 10");
    browserOptions.setBrowserVersion("dev");
    
    HashMap<String, Object> ltOptions = new HashMap<>();
    ltOptions.put("username", "<your_name>");
    ltOptions.put("accessKey", "<your_accesskey>");
    ltOptions.put("project", "Untitled");
    ltOptions.put("selenium_version", "4.0.0");
    ltOptions.put("w3c", true);
    
    browserOptions.setCapability("LT:Options", ltOptions);

    WebDriver driver = new RemoteWebDriver(
        new URL("https://hub.lambdatest.com/wd/hub"),
        browserOptions
    );
    driver.get("https://example.com");
}